Sunday, November 6, 2011

Sex abuse case against ex-Penn State coach jolts state (Reuters)

Sex abuse case against ex-Penn State coach jolts state (Reuters)

Sex abuse case against ex-Penn State coach jolts state (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 05:34 PM PST

Penn State head coach Joe Paterno answers questions during a news conference following a loss to Alabama in their NCAA football game in State College, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2011. REUTERS/Tim ShafferReuters - Criminal charges for sexually abusing boys filed against a longtime assistant to legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno jolted students, fans and alumni across Pennsylvania on Sunday.

Protestors circle White House in oil pipeline row (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 04:06 PM PST

Reuters - Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the White House complex on Sunday to press President Barack Obama to reject the project on environmental grounds.

Fourteen homes damaged in record earthquake in Oklahoma (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 04:16 PM PST

Reuters - Fourteen homes were damaged late on Saturday in the largest earthquake to hit Oklahoma on record, emergency management officials said on Sunday.

Singer Andy Williams reveals he has cancer (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 06:05 PM PST

Singer Andy Williams performs Reuters - Veteran singer Andy Williams, a 1960s television variety show star best known for his rendition of the ballad "Moon River," told fans over the weekend that he has been diagnosed with bladder cancer.

Graham, America's most famous preacher, turns 93 (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 08:27 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2010 file photo, evangelist Billy Graham, 92, speaks during an interview at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. As he approaches his 93rd birthday, America’s most famous Christian evangelist is reflecting frankly on his mortality and offering perspective for the country’s aging population. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)AP - For the Rev. Billy Graham, America's most famous evangelist across a career that lasted some six decades, the prospect of old age and death was for a long time something he tried not to think about, despite his convictions about the eternity that awaits human beings.

Police: 5 killed in Calif. home care facility fire (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 06:23 PM PST

This image, made from video, provided by KSBW-TV shows damage caused by a late Saturday night fire at a home care facility for the disabled in Marina, a small coastal community in Monterey County south of San Francisco, Sunday Nov. 6, 2011. The fire has killed five people, and federal authorities on Sunday were helping local investigators determine the cause of the blaze. (AP Photo/KSBW-TV)AP - A late night fire at a California home care facility for the disabled has killed five people, and federal authorities on Sunday were helping local investigators determine the cause of the blaze.

Tarmac delays an image problem for Conn. airport (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 01:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2011 file photo, stranded passengers rest on cots inside at Bradley International Airport, a day after a snowstorm in Windsor Locks, Conn. News of passengers being stuck on airliners for hours at the airport during last weekend’s freak autumn snowstorm came as state officials are trying to overhaul operations at the state’s flagship airport and attract more business. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)AP - The headlines were brutal: "126 Trapped on Plane 7 Hours." "Another Fiasco at Bradley."

Occupy Atlanta plans 2nd attempt to camp at park (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 10:32 AM PST

A protestor tries to get away as he's arrested by police after Occupy Atlanta protestors and an officer clashed as he was driving through the crowd on a motorcycle Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - Occupy Atlanta organizers said Sunday that they plan to again try to camp at a city park, setting up yet another showdown with police a night after 20 people were arrested during a rally that spilled into the streets.

JoePa: Shocked, saddened by sex abuse charges (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 04:50 PM PST

AP - Penn State coach Joe Paterno said he was shocked, saddened and as surprised as everyone else to learn longtime assistant Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing young boys over a 15-year period, including four years when Sandusky still was a member of the Nittany Lions staff.

Penn State board meets with news of criminal case (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 07:18 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald 'Jerry' Sandusky, center, is placed in a police car iin Bellefonte, Pa. to be taken to the office of a Centre County Magisterial District judge on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight young men. Also, Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Penn State vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, are expected to turn themselves in on Monday on charges of perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania’s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into the abuse allegations against Sandusky. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Commonwealth Media Services)AP - The Penn State board has begun meeting in executive session following a weekend announcement that criminal charges have been filed against a former coach and two top university officials.

Boehner says his friendship with Obama has cooled (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 06:08 AM PST

AP - House Speaker John Boehner says his relationship with one-time golf partner President Barack Obama has grown "a little frosty."

Big quake follows increase in Oklahoma rumblings (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 03:56 PM PST

Jess Burrow, left, and James Patterson, look over the damage caused outside the home of Joe and Mary Reneau when their chimney was toppled by Saturday's earthquake, in Sparks, Okla., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - Clouds of dust belched from the corners of almost every room in Joe Reneau's house as the biggest earthquake in Oklahoma history rocked the two-story building.

'Puss in Boots' stomps 'Tower Heist' at box office (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 12:26 PM PST

AP - "Puss in Boots" pounced on "Tower Heist" and "Harold & Kumar" at the box office.

$9M richer, informant unmasks himself at NY trial (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 10:43 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2010 file photo, Viktor Bout, then a suspected Russian arms dealer, is escorted by prison officials as he arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok. The conviction of the ex-Soviet officer known at the Merchant of Death can be credited in part to the work of a U.S. informant who has made more than $9 million for his undercover work over the past 15 years. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)AP - The most bankable star witness at the trial of an ex-Soviet officer known as the Merchant of Death was a former drug dealer turned U.S. government-sponsored actor who became one of the highest paid informants in history.

Racial politics return with Cain allegations (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 09:12 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2011, file photo Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) in Washington. Cain does not shy away from using race as a talking point, much to the consternation of liberal and independent blacks. He said blacks have been 'brainwashed' into voting for Democrats in large numbers and shuns the term 'African-American,' preferring to call himself an 'American black conservative.' (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Herman Cain's rise as a presidential contender was supposed to prove that race didn't matter in the Republican Party. Cain is fast making it the only thing that does.

Singer Andy Williams says he has bladder cancer (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 03:03 AM PST

FILE - U.S. singer Andy Williams smiles as he speaks to reporters during his news conference at a Tokyo hotel, in this July 25, 2004 file photo. The Branson Tri-Lakes News reports the 83-year-old Williams told the crowd at his Christmas show Saturday night Nov. 5, 2011 at the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Mo., that he is battling bladder cancer. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP - Singer Andy Williams told the crowd at his Christmas show Saturday night that he has bladder cancer.

Rice: Iran's government has `no legitimacy left' (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PST

AP - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the U.S. should consider even tougher penalties against Iran's government and "be doing everything we can to bring it down."

Analysis: Is student loan, education bubble next? (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:41 AM PST

AP - First the dot.coms popped, then mortgages. Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can never go bad?
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